Robert Borofsky

Biographic Data

ID3617138
NAMERobert Borofsky
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEBorofsky
SIGNATUREBOROFSKY R
AFFILIATIONSHawaii Pacific University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS262
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX7

  • Remembrance of Pacific Pasts

    Hilary Howes, Maile Arvin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2022References: 2

    imperial factor' as an explanatory concept and the need to devise 'methods for the study of multicultural situations'and the value of ethnohistorical evidence for the study of Polynesian history respectively. 2Contributions to subsequent issues addressed a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, facilitated from 1985 by the introduction of a 'Comment' section explicitly 'designed as a forum for debate about historical matters raised in this…

  • Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History

    Robert BorofskyBOOKRemembrance of Pacific Pasts2020

  • Rethinking ethnography: A study in public anthropology

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology Today2020Cited by: 1References: 8

    This editorial calls for an alternative approach to writing ethnographies. Instead of treating a group as a cultural whole to make writing about it easier, the author emphasizes the importance of understanding the intracultural diversity that exists within that group. In addition, he asks ethnographers to step away from a framework which places them as the primary interpreters of a group. Instead, he calls for more dialogic, multicentric narrativ…

  • Showing Anthropology Matters: Public Anthropology in Action

    Robert BorofskyBOOKShowing Anthropology Matters:…2019

  • Developments in Polynesian Ethnology

    S Alan Howard, Alan Howard et al.BOOKDevelopments in Polynesian…2019

  • Public Anthropology in Changing Times

    Robert Borofsky, A De LauriARTICLEPublic Anthropologist2019

    Public anthropology is a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of social and cultural anthropology. The impetus behind the creation of the journal Public Anthropologist originates in this realm of ongoing discussions and actions inspired by the idea of pushing engagement and participation beyond academic borders. Given that the traditional triadic structure’s assessment standards and th…

  • An Anthropology of Anthropology: Is It Time to Shift Paradigms

    Robert BorofskyBOOKAn Anthropology of Anthropology2019Cited by: 67

  • Public Anthropology

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018Cited by: 2References: 3

    This entry provides an overview of how public anthropology is perceived as well as how it might be said to differ from applied anthropology. The field not only involves engaging with public audiences beyond the discipline but also seeks to reshape anthropology to foster such engagement. In this regard, the entry discusses four goals: changing current standards of accountability, fostering greater transparency, changing the ethical focus to benefi…

  • Like a bridge over troubled waters

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2015Cited by: 1References: 5

  • To Be or Not to Be

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • An Anthropological Field of Dreams

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2005References: 1

  • Sad Questions, But Somebody Has to Ask Them

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News2003

  • The Four Subfields: Anthropologists as Mythmakers

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2002Cited by: 36References: 22

    A survey of articles published in the American Anthropologist over a 100-year period indicates that substantive collaboration across anthropological subfields is largely a myth-amounting toonly 311 of 3,264 articles surveyed (or 9.5 percent of the total). Working with the anthropological insights of Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Tylor, and Claude Levi-Strauss, this article considers why a myth of subf ield collaboration nonetheless exists within a…

  • When: A Conversation about Culture

    Open AccessRobert Borofsky, F Barth et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2001Cited by: 22References: 53

    For decades now culture has been a topic anthropologists argue about: WHAT it does or does not mean, IF it should or should not constitute a central concept of the discipline. This essay steps outside these arguments to rephrase the issue and our approach to it. It explores WHEN it makes sense to use the cultural concept: Should we proceed inductively or deductively in constructing connections between the concept and our data? And instead of asse…

  • It Ain't Over Until

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News2000

  • Commentary: Public Anthropology. Where To? What Next

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News2000Cited by: 15

  • Terkel Writes Ethnography Others Read

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News2000

  • To Laugh Or Cry

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News2000Cited by: 5

  • The Case of the Missing Theorist

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology News1999

  • Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins: CA* Forum on Theory in Anthropology

    Robert BorofskyARTICLECurrent Anthropology1997Cited by: 48

  • Assessing Cultural Anthropology

    Stephen Nugent, Robert BorofskyREVIEWJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

    Part 1 Diversity and divergence within the anthropological community: essays by Philip Salzman George Marcus Robert Murphy Marvin Harris. Part 2 Enhancing the comparative perspective: essays by Laura Nader Maurice Godelier Adam Kuper Roberto DaMatta Veena Das. Part 3 Rethinking the past: essays by Roy Rappaport Russell Levy Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier Marilyn Strathern Eric Wolf Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Part 4 Rethinking the cultural: essays …

  • Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society. Lamont Lindstrom

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1992

  • Past, Present and Practice: Aspects of "Self" on a Polynesian Atoll

    Open AccessRobert BorofskyARTICLEAnthropology and Humanism Quarterly1991References: 3

  • Making History, Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge

    Richard Price, Richard N Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1989

  • Making History: Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge

    Lin Poyer, Robert BorofskyARTICLEEthnohistory1988Cited by: 6